The phrase "a focal group" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It can be used when referring to a specific group that is the center of attention or focus in a discussion or study.
Example: "In our research, we identified a focal group of participants whose experiences were crucial to our findings."
Alternatives: "a target group" or "a key group".
A focal group session including experts from different specialisms could give us more insight in the real need and concerns of experts on patient safety in minimally invasive surgery.
Sphingids are also a focal group for biodiversity and habitat quality assessment studies [23].
Four community discussions were held; two demonstrations with the Afro-descendant population and a focal group of parents were observed; and four semi-structured interviews were held.
By using structured questionnaires for direct interviews, local indigenous knowledge was tapped through involvement of a focal group of elderly key informants in three blocks of the forest.
Thus, the more a focal group departs from a model of panmixia, the more paralogous loci one would expect to retrieve across all samples.
In a previous stage, a qualitative research into a focal group formed by Spanish students was carried out in order to find out their likes and preferences.
Once the 105 item parameters were selected at random, they were treated as non-DIF and were assigned to non-overlapping blocks at random for the reference group and any focal group(s) selected to be non-DIF.
That is why we state that we had a key focal group of respondents chosen for their knowledge about the same, and of a minimum age that is generally recognized globally to posses the greatest of such knowledge.
Novel regioselective, homo-(4 6) and heterogeneous (7 10) dendronized cellulose derivatives have been prepared by the reaction of cellulose in a N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc)/LiCl solvent system with diverse dendrons (1 3) possessing an isocyanate focal group.
If the phylogenetic placement of an Arabian focal group is recovered, predictions can be made concerning the timing of speciation and tested in a temporally explicit phylogenetic framework to infer historical biogeographic patterns.
Testing type-I sites may be more challenging, since there is not a clear way to swap the residues present in a member of the focal group of proteins with that in a different group.
